We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

There are some who speak one moment before they think

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.